Word: autogiros
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Anyone who can fly an ordinary airplane can, with little additional instruction, fly an autogiro. But the reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first-possibly his last-experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary...
Last week it was revealed that the Department of Commerce has created a new license for autogiro pilots, qualifying the holder to fly autogiros only. Hereafter, for a full private license the student must perform in a conventional plane. Holders of limited commercial and transport licenses may qualify for special autogiro ratings, just as they must qualify to fly each class of airplane...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, who three months ago cracked up an Autogiro in taking off (TIME, June 22). last week cracked one up in landing at Michigan State Fair Grounds. Mrs. Putnam was unhurt, but her husband, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, tripped over a wire as he raced to the scene, had to be taken to a hospital...
...While Amelia Earhart (Mrs. George Palmer Putnam) was being officially reprimanded by the Department of Commerce for "poor judgment" in her autogiro crackup (TIME, June 22), her husband's publishing company (Brewer, Warren & Putnam) brought out the first book written by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks. Last week Capt. Hawks returned from Europe, unloaded his plane from the steamer at Quebec, flew it off the pier...
...Putnam was scrupulous in her praise of the autogiro for the slightness of the accident. But she could not prevent the headlines which varied from MISS EARHART AVOIDS SERIOUS AUTOGIRO CRASH, through AMELIA EARHART'S AUTOGIRO CRASHES to EARHART AUTOGIRO SPINS TO EARTH IN TEXAS CYCLONE...